Quebec's right-wing incumbent party wins new term

Quebec re-elected its right-wing governing party on Monday, after a heated campaign in which the party leadership pushed claims that immigration threatened the French-speaking Canadian province's culture. With 41 per cent of the vote and 89 seats in the 125-seat Quebec National Assembly, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ), a right-wing nationalist party led by current Premier Francois Legault, won by a landslide. The party, in office for the past four years, had made declarations blaming immigrants in part for the decline of the French language in the province.

Final results showed the CAQ, founded in 2011, beat its 2018 results when it won 74 out of 125 seats with just over 37 per cent of the vote. - AFP